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Re: Return True to Win

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Post by fauria » Fri, Aug 12, 2016, 12:25 PM UTC

This table is quite useful to solve some problems: https://dorey.github.io/JavaScript-Equality-Table/

Re: Return True to Win

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Post by alexmorenodev » Fri, Aug 12, 2016, 12:27 PM UTC

What the hell am I reading.

Re: Return True to Win

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Post by madawan » Fri, Aug 12, 2016, 12:34 PM UTC

kqr wrote: post #15

lma21 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How did you solve the reflexive? I'm not getting at anything :(

NaN != NaN. It's how you're supposed to test for NaN, apparently.

Or use isNaN

Re: Return True to Win

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Post by xeniak » Fri, Aug 12, 2016, 12:36 PM UTC

idbehold wrote: post #20

Let me document all the reasons I dislike the HTML spec: it defines a willful violation of the ECMAScript standard.

Can you elaborate?

Re: Return True to Win

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Post by stoic » Fri, Aug 12, 2016, 12:44 PM UTC

With games like these I feel like we all lose

Re: Return True to Win

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Post by Tepix » Fri, Aug 12, 2016, 12:46 PM UTC

It doesn't seem to work for me on Firefox and Chrome..?

Re: Return True to Win

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Post by mk7 » Fri, Aug 12, 2016, 12:49 PM UTC

I am so unhappy, because I can not play such games with Java... ;-)

Re: Return True to Win

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Post by ninjakeyboard » Fri, Aug 12, 2016, 12:49 PM UTC

I don't exactly know what I did, but it did say that I win.

Re: Return True to Win

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Post by okket » Fri, Aug 12, 2016, 12:50 PM UTC

This page only shows "return true to win" on a white background in Chrome?

Re: Return True to Win

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Post by qwertyuiop924 » Fri, Aug 12, 2016, 12:50 PM UTC

I already saw this on lobste.rs, but it's still cool. I like ES just fine, but to think we could have had scheme instead. Gee, thanks Netscape:

Every time you win, everybody loses.